SiteRond

Till a few years ago,  for designing a basic website, some  web design and HTML skills were needed or a website designer had to be hired.   However, increasingly website owners are designing the website themselves using  tools like website builders

Many of the website builders available today have a free version which can be used for building personal websites.  For  commercial users, an enhanced version is available on payment of a fixed fee, though some website builders charge users for annual upgrades.

Other free website builders are integrated with web hosting. The web hosting companies bundle it  with the web hosting package and the website builder is not available separately.

Different types of software are used for designing a website, depending on the complexity and type of the website

Notepad

Microsoft Frontpage

Microsoft Publisher

CoffeeCup HTML Editor

Dreamweaver 8 - Used to code your site, free trial version available
Dreamweaver CS3(Dreamweaver 9)

Photoshop CS2 - for photos, images, modifying images

Fireworks 8 - Have never used, believe also 2d manipulation and style creation software

Flash 8 - For creating flash animation

GIMP - open source software for animation